Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

P. "Every man unto his god." They were heathens. St Jerome remarks: "Although Ignorant of the truth, they are not insensible to Providence, and whilst erring as to the otyeet of worship, they know that something must be adored."

St Jerome ascribes this to sadness. He may have gone to sleep before the storm arose. He was in this circumstance also a type of Christ, who slept amidst the storm, and was awakened bj His Apostles alarmed at the impending danger.

Sailors are Inclined to superstition. They may hare had reason to suspect that tbs storm was not natural. M God was pleased in this instance to manifest the foot, by means of the casting of lots, although ordi- narily no reliance can be placed on it, since the result is fortuitous. " The fugitive is here discovered not in virtue of the lots cast, especially by heathens, but by the will of Him who directed what in itself was uncertain." St Jerome.